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Before he became the guitarist for ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons was in a band called the Moving Sidewalks that just missed its shot at stardom. The album the Moving Sidewalks never released in the late 1960s was released in late 2012 and is very much a period piece, albeit a very well-made one.

Top GOP and Democratic strategists say the global pandemic is shifting the calculations in this November's House and Senate races and could make for an unpredictable year.

The president's record on keeping his campaign promises over the last four years: 47 percent, according to the watchdog PolitiFact. A boon to Obama's promise-keeping came from the passage of big-name programs like the economic stimulus package and the education program Race to the Top.

Do you know why ice forms on the top of a pond? Or that red hair is the rarest? Kee Malesky does. The venerable NPR librarian has been dubbed "the source of all human knowledge." She shares her fact-finding prowess with the world in a new book, All Facts Considered.

A note written by a 13-year-old Boy Scout 40 years ago was recently found on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Weekend Edition host Rachel Martin talks with the former Boy Scout Tim Taylor, who is now a superior court judge in San Diego.

Watch a live NASA feed of the Transit of Venus.

Highly interactive sites cater to a growing number of life-hackers who want to do everything from modify cell phones to make their own furniture.

Host Bob Edwards talks to oil industry analyst, Philip Verleger, about the likelihood that the Federal Trade Commission will approve the $81-billion merger between Exxon and Mobil this week. The FTC required the two companies to divest themselves of some 2,400 gasoline stations and a refinery.

One of the most-storied racehorses in recent history is being retired. Funny Cide, who won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, made one last visit to the winner's circle in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

When it was built in 1912 it was called Navin Field. Then the name changed to Briggs Stadium, but most people today know it as Tiger Stadium, one of the last of the great old ballparks. It will close after this season. Guest host Don Gonyea, a Detroit native, takes us on a guided tour of the old stadium.